The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Aye, I dont often carry my phone either. Horrible intrusive things.

I was European sales manager and then set up my own business. A phone was vital and became part of my life (like many others).
Nowadays I get very few phone calls and those I do get are usually bad news.....BUT strangely, on the few occasions I forget to take it with me I feel undressed.

And just think......without mobiles how would we know about Drago's Y fronts .

 

[PeteXXX]

Something came into my mind this morning...

If it was vegans that dropped the atomic bomb would the plane have been called the 'Granola Gay'? 🤔

💣

 

[Baldy]

 

[PeteXXX]

Well, after a days work, my route home through Moulton Park industrial estate had, in a masterful piece of planning, roadworks at both ends that caused total gridlock..
Eventually, I dumped the car & walked the 1¾ miles home.
I'll pop back on the Brommie this evening and retrieve it once the roads are clear.. 👍

 

[Drago]

In the dibble we used to have an office on Moulton park BITD. Commuting could sometimes be a mare.

 

[Dave7]

Sat in the surgery's waiting room. They have new chairs. Has there been a 'national find the most uncomfortable chairs' competition that I am unaware of......these are rock hard, no give at all.
To top it all my Doctor is out on a home visit and reception don't know when she will be back. I will give it 6 minutes (to the appointment time** and then I'm off.
**I am only here because she asked to come in and gave me this time.

 

[Tenkaykev]

They have just started work demolishing and rebuilding part of the Plessey / Yunex site in Poole. It was originally the site of a munitions factory then Plesseys took over the site. The bar code and bar code scanners were designed and developed there as was ERNIE the Premium Bond machine. Sir Tim Berners-Lee used to work there for a time. Strange that wandering to Screwfix last week all was as in the first photo, and this week it's nearly all gone.

 

[PaulSB]

There I am, in town and just left B&Q. This brings me to a roundabout where I turn right on to a 30mph dual carriageway. As I turn a Fiat 500 shoots across at a nippy pace. I use the outside lane as the nearside gets the feed from an adjacent roundabout. A white Volvo V4 comes up behind me at speed. I indicate and start to move over. She undertakes me at speed, we round the slight right bend where a side road joins the carriageway. She immediately brakes hard. I carry on laughing to myself. The blue lights come on and follow her out!!! Yeah!!! 🤣


View: https://youtu.be/4v7kQz4voSM?si=Y0bVUAS3RiFrge4i

 

[Dave7]

Back from seeing the Doc'..... can I really trust someone called Doctor MooMoo (really, seriously that's her name).
For a change it was (nearly) all good news ie B/P** and Magnesium are back to normal. They still don't know why my kidney is working so hard BUT she kindly told me it's not heading towards dialysis.
**My B/P was on the high side but is now normal.

 

[Dave7]

Just before the Doctor took my blood pressure I showed her this cartoon (stolen fron CC jokes)........

 

[PaulSB]

Aye, I dont often carry my phone either. Horrible intrusive things.

Yes, I know many people who feel this way and I understand their feelings. It doesn't bother me. Mrs P and I both carry our phones all the time. Without her phone I dread to think how long Mrs P would have lain hidden from sight at the top of the garden.

I was only 5 - 6 minutes away from leaving for a 5 - 6 hour ride on the opposite side of the house. All our immediate neighbours were out.